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Turkey has not decided whether it should participate in the opening of the central mosque in Crimea
At present, Turkey has not made a concrete decision on whether or not it should participate in the opening of the central mosque in Simferopol, TASS reports with reference to a statement by a high-ranking source in the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“As I understand it, Russian President Vladimir Putin made the proposal during one-on-one negotiations with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. At the moment, Turkey has not made any decision regarding this matter,” the agency reported the …
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Kremlin bans anonymous use of internet messengers in Russia
On May 5, the decree of the Russian government prohibiting the anonymous use of internet messengers came into force, reports TASS.
According to the decree, the administrations of messengers are required to identify their users by their mobile phone numbers.
"Now, the messengers should check the information about the registration of the user's phone number with the mobile operator. The mobile operator, in turn, must provide the requested information within 20 minutes. If the operator did not …
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Kremlin: Russia opposes Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Treaty
Russia believes that the idea of nuclear disarmament is still premature. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) at the moment would only provoke a conflict between the nuclear powers, stated the Russian delegation at the meeting of the committee for conference preparation on The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), reports Gazeta.ru.
According to Russian representatives, the disarmament process must be approached “realistically and in several stages”. At …
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Head of Belarusian national telecommunications company detained in Minsk
The General Director of the leading telecommunications company Beltelecom, Sergey Sivoedov, was detained and taken into custody in Belarus. He was arrested for allegedly receiving a 15 thousand euros bribe from an unnamed Russian citizen, who was also arrested. According to the Radio Liberty, in the press release of the country’s Committee for State Security (KGB), the arrested Russian national is marked with the letter “K”.
The investigators believe that Sivoedov received a bribe from a …
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Zelensky claims he prepares several possible responses to Russia’s passport aggression
Ukrainian President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky said that he is working on several possible responses to Russia’s initiative to issue passports to residents of the occupied parts of the Donbas.
“We are preparing. Let’s just say we have several approaches. In this regard, we need to be creative, we need to be quick, clever, what we are – young. And so for now we will make preparations, and later we will show you,” Zelensky told reporters when asked whether he had any suggestions for parliament …